Rank, 14 days: 89 on the Codex sheet
3 people reported

All time, since Oct 26, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Browser file:// refusal blocks preview

“This leaves the agent declining to review the same page through a user-started localhost server, despite OpenAI documenting that preview workflow.”

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Browser Use file:// refusal blocks localhost preview of same page. After a "browser security policy" rejection of a file:// URL, the agent declines a user-started loopback server preview, reading the refusal as prohibiting alternatives.

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Where
Browser Use
Error text
Browser Use rejected this action due to browser security policy.
Platforms
macOS
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Not quite your bug?

  1. Browser Use blocks file:// URLs5 people
  2. Browser access denied after approval4 people
  3. Browser blocks allowed site50 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Agent-created browser refusal leads to repeated misattribution and stalled task recoveryOn GitHub#58628
  2. Browser Use file:// refusal appears to prohibit documented localhost preview alternativeOn GitHub#57219

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